The instrumentation plan for the European-Extremely Large Telescope foresees a Multi-Object Spectrograph (E-ELT MOS). The MOSAIC project is proposed by a European-Brazilian consortium, to provide a unique MOS facility for astrophysics, studies of the inter-galactic medium and for cosmology. The science cases range from spectroscopy of the most distant galaxies, mass assembly and evolution of galaxies, via resolved stellar populations and galactic archaeology, to planet formation studies. A further strong driver are spectroscopic follow-up observations of targets that will be discovered with the James Webb Space Telescope.
@article{arxiv.1512.00777,
title = {MOSAIC: a Multi-Object Spectrograph for the E-ELT},
author = {Andreas Kelz and Francois Hammer and Pascal Jagourel and the MOSAIC consortium},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00777},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, conference: Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade, La Palma, 2015, to be published in Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASPCS)